Who are America’s post 9/11 era terrorists?

People gather outside the Federal Building to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order travel ban

Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The president said the order would protect American people from the threat posed by jihadist terrorism but is that really likely? Research from the New America Foundation suggests otherwise.

Even though the attacks on 9/11 were perpetrated by foreign infiltrators, every single jihadist who conducted a lethal attack in the U.S. since then was either a U.S. citizen or a legal resident. No fatal attacks in the post 9/11 era were committed by terrorists from the countries restricted by Trump’s travel ban. The following infographic provides an overview of the citizenship status of all people charged with or who died engaging in jihadist terrorism in the U.S. since 2001.You will find more statistics at Statista

190 of them (82 percent) are U.S. citizens and permanent residents while refugees and illegal immigrants have been involved in very few terrorist incidents. Last week, U.S. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham issued a statement, saying that they believe the order “may do more to help terrorist recruitment than improve our security” due to the signal it sends to the Muslim world.

It also emerged in recent days that Iraqi Air Force fighter pilots will no longer be admitted to Arizona to undergo flight training to combat the Islamic State. A study by the Cato Institute sums up why the fear-mongering of foreigners is arguably misplaced. According to their findings, Americans are 253 times more likely to die in an ordinary homicide than a terrorist attack carried out by a foreigner in the U.S.

And pointedly, he has issued an executive order that now removes white nationalists from terror organisations investigation lists.
Pull the other one Trumpy we know what this is all about. Passing the blame on those countries banned as being something Obama did is totally incorrect. It’s fact his was a visa waiver ban and only got tougher in the case of Iraq when it was found there were links to bomb builders in Iraq.

Still no burning answers as to why he excludes countries he has business interests with or is aiding in was, such as in the Yemen with Saudi Arabia.

Really?

So the fact that he picked the exact seven countries that Obama did is a coincidence? The fact that some of these countries have a strong presence of AQ or IS is irrelevant?

gentlegiant161

No he didn’t its overwhelmingly shown that Trump lied as those investigative journalists and press (NOT the Breibert right wing rubbish) have shown including evidence before a senate inquiry but you keep going with your parrot fashion comment repeated ad infinitum.
Still doesn’t make it true

Slomi

I agree with you.

jobanana

Why is the Cyprus Mail copying / pasting this fact twisting article? Have they run out of their own journalist? These statistics are meaningless.

Adele

Eating kebab is at football matches is more Important it creasing me up.

gentlegiant161

The simplest statistics are often the most reliable.
It’s reported that :
It seems that the countries Trump has banned have no terrorist activities in America.
But Donald only banned the ones he doesn’t have business deals/interests in.
He’s already been on the phone to Saudi Arabia.

Afro cyprus

911 was a inside job nothing to do with terrorist, if I was to give a couple of examples over the 100s of inconsistency your see why, no building can fall at near free fall speed unless there is no resistance beneath it, this is a fact not an assumption see the films of the towers coming down and time them, building 7 is even better to see, all controlled demolitions, Nano Thermite is only made by the military is an explosive that cuts through metal and has its own oxygen molten metal was burning for month under the towers had collapsed, The pentagon, no sign of any aircraft hitting it , this is despite the pentagon having 100s of CCTV cameras. the shanksville crash site, plane crashes in a soft field, no engines, body debris, no black boxs ever found in all 4 so called plane crashes. THIS WAS NOT TERRORISTS

DIRECT IT TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION

Plasma Dawn

I’m relieved you didn’t blame Obama for 9/11. Now take you medications and go to sleep, you’ll feel much better in the morning.

Afro cyprus

if I have to reply to a donkey I suppose I have to offer him a carrot to move on,, first of all you are farting in the wind and expect everyone to smell it, if you had any IQ you would put your arguments against my views, but I like I said your just farting in the wind,

Your wanna debate I am here for you, if not go outside and play with the rest of the children

Jim Demetrios

Wow! And you actually believe what you write. Lol.

Veritas

Free speech and the right of each individual to express themselves should be untouchable, but sometimes it’s advisable for each and one of us to have a filter in our brain to stop the most naive, ridiculous and stupid ideas to be made public. Your comment is a perfect example where a filter would have protected you from looking as an ignorant clown.

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